Archive for November, 2011

I met Luong Hoai Thuong in 2007 when I was photographing in Vietnam. I was particularly interested in landmine survivors, and after a couple of days of capturing images of amazing adults who had lost their arms but could still manipulate a hoe in their fields or had lost legs but could still fish for […]

Im not a nature photographer, but I do at times mistakenly drag a camera along when I go on vacation. I was thinking of this while lying around because I just had knee surgery. Rather than remaining in cold and snowy Yakima Ive been fantasizing about healing instead on a tropical island such as Sandy […]

Digital technology has definite advantages over film. I learned about one of them while shooting in Cuba a few years ago. I was interested in capturing images of the iconic old cars that populate the islands streets, and shot a variety of daytime photos. I thought Id also try shooting them at night, using a […]

In a rural village in northern India, students from Isabella Thoburn College perform street theater against dowry violence. Dowry is a practice where the bride's family transfers money and objects of value to the groom's family, and it has grown even more prevalent in India in recent years, contributing to horrible violence against many women […]